The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler
- Bib ID:
- 3428572
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kunstler, James Howard
- Description:
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- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005
- vii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0871138883
- Summary:
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"American people are sleepwalking into a future of hardship and turbulence. James Howard Kunstler, one of our shrewdest and most engaging social commentators, tells what to expect when we pass the tipping point of global peak oil production and enter the long arc of depletion - economic, political, and social changes on an epochal scale - sooner than we think." "The Long Emergency will change everything. Globalism will wither. Life will become profoundly and intensely local. The consumer economy will be a strange memory. Suburbia - considered a birthright and a reality by millions of Americans - will become untenable. We will struggle to feed ourselves. We may exhaust and bankrupt ourselves in the effort to prop up the unsustainable. And finally, the United States may not hold together as a nation. We are entering an uncharted territory of history.".
"The Long Emergency is a startling vision of what lies ahead, bringing new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and which we can no longer afford to ignore."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Sleepwalking into the future
- 2. Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma
- 3. Geopolitics and the global oil peak
- 4. Beyond oil : why alternative fuels won't rescue us
- 5. Nature bites back : climate change, epidemic disease, water scarcity, habitat destruction, and the dark side of the industrial age
- 6. Running on fumes : the hallucinated economy
- 7. Living in the long emergency.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Petroleum as fuel -- United States -- Social aspects
- Fossil fuels -- United States -- Social aspects
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Renewable energy sources -- United States -- Social aspects
- Climate and civilization
- Environmentalism -- United States -- Social aspects
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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